Spitzer Is Bullish On Sen. Clinton

Gov. Eliot Spitzer said he sees no connection between Sen. Hillary Clinton’s poorer showing in polls and her handling of the issue of whether she backed Spitzer’s unsuccessful plan to allow illegal immigrants to gain driver’s licenses.
“None whatsoever,” Spitzer told reporters today.
He also said she’s got lots of time to make up ground.
“Folks begin to do autopsies on bodies that are alive. I’m not sure I buy into that. We are in the middle of a campaign where Hillary Clinton is doing great. She has an enormous reservoir of support, and will continue to have that support. This will continue as a dynamic debate . . . With most of the vast majority of delegates still to be allocated in states where Hillary is going to mount an aggressive campaign . . .Â The wonderful thing as a Democrat is to see candidates who are so articulate, so forceful, evoking such emotion . . . How could you not enjoy seeing this process go forward?”
He said the State of the State address he gives Wednesday will be about “jobs, jobs, jobs.”
He declined to discuss his plan for privatizing the New York State Lottery Division.
He also said he is disappointed with the rejection by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne office of theÂ land-to-trust application of the St. Regis Mohawk tribal council last week. The decision has blockedÂ a tribal casino in Monticello.
He called the ruling “flawed” and added he will continue to try ways to make the casino project happen while also evaluating alternative strategies to improve the economy of the Catskills.